Of course, nothing can ever prevent accidents caused by human weakness or misconduct; and there should be drastic punishment for any railroad employee, whether officer or man, who by issuance of wrong orders or by disobedience of orders causes disaster.
Roosevelt acknowledges that while accidents are inevitable, accountability for negligence is essential.
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I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.
No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.
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